Florence KingGradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
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The quote “Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap” by Herman Melville is all about the effects of time and how we perceive its passing. The word ‘humanness’ means our ability to understand what we need to do next and how we can do it. Similarly, we use our humanness to understand what we need to do in order to find the answers to our problems. We use our mental capabilities just like our physical capabilities.
One thing that is not important is how much time we spend on this earth. Because life is short, we should enjoy it while it lasts. Life is too short to waste any of it on unimportant stuff.
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